Exploring the thermal cycle of the Northern North Sea area using a 3-D circulation model: The example of PROVESS NNS station

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 271-286

  Umgiesser, Georg ^a   Luyten, Patrick J ^b   Carniel, Sandro ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

COHERENS model; Heat content; Modelling; North Sea; PROVESS; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; TURBULENCE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0036940566     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-1101(02)00193-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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